The game itself doesn't start until more than a third of the way through the book, so the there's plenty of room for Kettmann's set-up, before he goes into a virtual box score in the remaining chapters.
It's a strangely Snow White-esque moment that unfolds minutes after we set up our gear in the conference room of the Leadership Development Center -- a drab, unassuming office space in the middle of Colorado Springs' Peterson Air Force Base that serves as a training facility for 11 months out of the year.